Triple-leaf ledger.



Patented Juy ifl, 159A; 2 SEEETPHMM 2.

T. WSLW. TBPLE LEA? 2.7533925.

APPLIOATIOX FILED Amma, w13. il, 1 @$3,554.

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'UNITED smiths PATENT onsioig.

THOMAS N. 'WINSLOW, G GREENSBORO, NORTH CAROLINA.

' TMPLFPLEAF Lnnonn 1Q?) ZZ liv/10m t mog/'concern x Bc it known that l, THOMAS N. `W1NSLOW, u. citizen of the Unitedv States, residing et Greensboro, in the county of Guilford and Stute of North Carolina, have invented u certain new und improved Triple-Leaf Ledger; and l do hereby declare the fol# lowing'to be u full,'cleur, und exact descrl 1 tion of the same, reference being` had to t e accompanyingdrawings, forming part of this specification, und to the figures and let ters of reference marked thereon. l c

The present invention has for its' object i to provide a ledger or record book for keephereinzifter described.

ing certain classes of accounts, suchffor exyample, :as the accounts of a savingsbenk or building association With'p'ntrons Who make deposits of lixed amounts at periodic ntervnls, although the invention maybe readily adapted for keeping other 4classes of accounts where the customer is .given lareceipt and a second duplicate receipt is utilized in the bank or institution itself as a check on Lthehookleepcr, and hence I do not wish-to be limited to the particular use to be Referring to the uccoinpanyin drawings-ligure i is e perspective view of a triple sheet embodying the present improvements. with the outer edges of the leaves separated somewhotto show their relation.

y Fig. 2 is a plan of one side of the preferred arrangement of the sheet of pspervfroin which the triple leaves are formed. Big. 3 is a vieuI of the opposite side of the paper sheet shown in Fig. 4 is a perspeo tive View of s bock in the form of e loose leefledger embodying the'. present improvements.

Lilie letters .of reference in the several figures indicate the sume parts.

lu accordance with the schemeof the nt invention an account kept 'oy en .1n-

r,on with its customer Aor patron enlbonies triple lea'fes'in the ledger, each leef having: impressed thereon a series ot coupons "each corresponding' to andY indicatingon amount of one of u numberof periodic puyinents and the total number of coupons rep-.

resenting the tot-1l amountto bepadin coni@ spannenden of'Letters Paientfpplcation filed April 30; 1913. Serial No. '$4,639.

Patented July 1st, 1914.

pleting;r the transaction of paying in u predetermined sum or mony. The coupons are printed on the three leaves so as to overlie and register' with each other and lines of weakness orlperlorations are formed in the f two superposed leaves ivhereby the coupons of these two leavesmay be removed singly 'or insucoession. lenving'the underlying or bottom leaf as u' permanent record in the ledger. Thecoupons of oneof the super.

posed leaves are intended to ben handed to the money deposited, while the couponsof the customer or patron as .his receipts for the -other leef are to be filed or transmitted by the bookkeeper to the proper olices of the Ybank or institution Va. se'check upon the transaction and to enable the daily receiptsv of the institutionto be redily determined.

by the coupons detached rom the led Ier land trnnsmittedto the proper oflicer et the close of each days business. In order that the triple leaves or account sections may be handled successively without liability of eccidental detachment of the coupons, it is preferred that the leaves of each account :section shell be connected at the top andj bottoni edges, the third and unperforated leaf always serving as. a support for the perforated leaves, whereby the leaves of the whole account section may'be readily the vbook to the proper" stub o on Wlfiich appears, data identifyingthe account by number, class,`.the. time the account was opened, the pcrsons name, ad-

dress, the condition ofthe account ut any'- state-d time, transfer, withdrawal, maturity, amount of deposits, interest and a space -for` remaiks applicable to theaccount. Joining. p

this stub by' lines or" Weakness are a series'of coupons B,"each separa-ted ro'mthe other by lines of Weakness b and .each having printed thereon'date identifying the coupon with the ',.Jcount by number, the amount for which the coupon is a receipt und preferably also the total amount received, as indicated hy the previously detached couponsi That is to say, the first' coupon at the upper right hund corner of the leef would heer the'nunr her of the account. say, No. l, also the :unount representedv y that coupon,y to Wit: li'r'ty cents, und the total amount received, fifty cents. The next coupon below would have the seme data, save that lthe ltotal amount received would he indicated as 'one dollar, and so on. The second of the triple leaves A', in so far as the coupon portion is .the coupons ofthe first sheet. sheet A, While '1t 1s prlntedto represent a:

concerncd,.is e duplicate of the coupon por` .tionvof the first Vleaf A, andthe coupons are adapted to he removed simultaneously with T he third seriesof coupons, exactly corresponding to the sheets A, and A', is not perforated, butl constitutes vthe permanent record to be left in the ledger. The stub portions of thesecond and third leaves Avend A2 are preferably/'printed in the form of a certificate of deposit, that on the'second leefgA being shownat Cin,l Fig. 3, and that on the third leaf, at Din the saine figure. It is designed that when the coupon receipts are all de tached theyl may be redeemedand An. certifil .cate of deposit issued for their face value,

" und for this purposethe .certificate of de-l posit on thestulo of the'second leaf A' is detached and given vtothe patron inretu'n for the` coupons, leaving the stub ofthe first lectin. with n, record of the account Written thereon und whichinay he filed away and the co'nru'ilete third leaf A2' with a duplicate of the. certificate of'deposit thereon, and also the coupons which correspond to the coupons detached from the superposed leaves;

It is designed that ledgers shell be made up of triple leaves for different-classes of ac-v counts, thet is to say, accounts in which dif- .fcrent'amounts are to he deposited at stated intervals, es for example, e, fifty cents class,

' a' one dollar class, mons dollar and fifty centsl class, etc., auditie-designed that each individual account shall be designated by u different number; thus the triple leaves illustrated in Figs. l, 2 and 3' nre for account No-` 1, and this number appears on each leaf and on euch lcoupon so that there .can heno possible confusion or'lack of' identification Each, class maybe in the several accounts.

Y distinguished by a different tintzcf paper,

'so that the facility -with which the coupons may be separated and counted und thetransactions' of a day or o f a eriod deterrninedv and checked may he per ormed iny e rapid and easy'mann'er.; ,t is obvious that the "triple leaves may he formed of a large. sheet of paper folded in various ways, but it is vpreferred that the folds shall he :it-the top and hottomedges, as along the dotted lines f in Figs. 2 end'3,'and theprinting is, of course, arranged on the sections of the large sheet of peperso that the proper. faces will he presented, the arrangementof the printing *depending upon the particular way in which the sheet is folded, to give the tripli-v cate leaf effect. The preferred wey of `folding is to have the front und hach: leaves conf nected by e feld et the bottoni and the ,v

front and intermediate leaves connected hy e fold at the top, inasmuch es this provides a ready arrangement for permitting the turning of all of the'triple leaves of ee'chv account by taking hold of the lower edge or'4 of the upper edge of the bottom-leaf, which.

thus forms a support for the perforated leaves and or broken.

Obviously, where it is desired to issue the certificates of de osit they must he detached from the other eaves, and `hence,the stub sections of the leaves 'maybe sggtiirited from each other, as, or'example, aiongthe stuh portions of the dotted hnesjfnnd'the cerA tificate of deposit may furthermore he prof rules and regulations governingfthe account. Y,

This envelop answers'fonel 'pass hook and is: a receptacle for receipts given for deposits,y The bookkeeper ofthe bank enters the name and addressof the depositor .upon the stubl ofthe appropriate triple 1af,for example,

on vthe stub of fthe' lfirst leef Aandiipon' the envelopv 'which' is given the customer, l The,A eteches the originel und* hookkeeperl thenY duplicate coupon receipts forl the amount' cf the deposit and hands the original/Withjthe envelop` to 4the depositor. The duplicate rcoupon receipt is iledinnth'e haul: or instituton und the bookkeeper muy stamp thev date of the .transaction upon the correspond#-l I ingitriplinte. coupon receipt on4 the third y pnge'orleaf o f'the account. Siihsemient1 demf posits are handled in the saine way, thel deposton being' always.. identicdfhy; his ac-f v count."I number. If a, Withdrciv'al ishad- 'bei-; fore. the lend 'ofy the Stimejwlien' the' coupons should vvhe redeemed, the' -'uccount' is closed and the permanentwrecofdleft in the ledger.

consists of the stubs, ,the iidetached con ns 'on the first and second lea-ves and. the t irdi.

or always permanent leaf'having .duplicates of ell the coupons thereon By noting wlui'chV v of the coupons are exposed on' the'third lenti` in the spaces left by the removed coupons,`

the amount deposited can always 'loe determined a glance.Y it' toe accountfis .wn until it matures, the ac losed lp' removing the .st-uh of the preserved in he permanent record. This iicate cer cate of deposit- Wit-h thea@ nl other checks, sach as the the account makes counter- 'ly ditiicnlt.

i the triple leaf ledger died is particularly s accounts and ie necessity of clerical enaccount hav 'mee been opened, liability ol' error,

4 er used feitinf7 tn 't system adapted to avoids enti;

after t* thus doing an in making' a pernmnen` v checked and ns for. a given period or day r erininctl hy simply counting the ninnoer coupons ied for each classot accounts and multiplying the nnznher hy the unit of value of the coupon, sinn or' the product thus obtained for lass shol l `ie with the cash rel` duri l and coxzstitutes a pon any' dishonesty '.rt oi the bookkeepreadily caf lei ',r oi the present. in- .r'ay cntinely with the necessity Icping entries to complete lint; practicada the only +G ong of the data For i lenn cred :1t the time the account is opi, The hooliheeping is therefte:- cnireiy cininical and may be perfon-mml ly; por unskilled and unfamiliar 4C n'- i pooldufepo .is ordinarily understood.'

"l'lie arra 's sach that a positive record s z iat the condition lor the` 'account is f' f' the third sheet haring el; are snccessively disicris coupon and check i. inasmuch as cach nie third sheet is op at the time are removed, a t mechanically of the naine of patron and tint of' involved in a single transaction, the cou.

pons of the two uppermost leaves only beingseg'iarated from adjacent coupons by lines of Weakness het-Ween thein adapting them for removal to disclose the corresponding; coupon of the lower leaf for a permanent ledger record of the transaction of which the remoti 1d coupons fornithe depositors and auditors records said leaves having on a nonaeinovable portion ailipropriatelydesignated spaces data relating to the complete transaction of which the triple leavesiorxn the current rccord, c., the depositors naine, and idcntication the depositors coupons and permanent record leaf having printed'thereonL like account identifying data.

An account ledger for the purpose described formed of account sections each coniposed'oi triplicate leaves superpose-d one npon the other, all of said leaves harinar stub sections with account identifying data thereon, the stub section ofthe uppermost sheet ha ving appropriately designated spaces for the data relating to the depositor and special features ot the account, the stub sections of the remaining sheets having printed forms thereon for certificates ot' deposit' and a scriesof coupons forming the outer portion of each sheet`r the conpons on the triplicate leiwcsim'crlying and registering -one with lheolhcr, there being' lines ol per'- forations between the cop ions ot' the two uppermost leaves only, whereby said cerf pons may hc detached to disclose tfic cc' pons on the lower nnpcr'loraied leaf chene account section, each coupon or" the upper and lower leaves having` printed thereon deswoations of its value and the value of th total deposits including its value there heinf-f similar account identifyingy data on both rcnmvahle and permanent portions of the leaves.

1-3. An account ledger for the purpose described, ,embodying a series oi' individual acconnt\sections hound togcthenat one side edge, each indivif'lual account section lining composed or' triplicate leaves connor-,toil at the topand bottoni edges hy folding;1 thc pail l 1,103,554

per of whichthe leaves'are formed, whereby only, whereby they may be removed for the theleaves of each'section are connected for depositors and auditors records and whenbeing 'turned as a unit und their outer edges removed disclose the third sheet coupon desare left seperate and said leaves having upon ignation to form a permanent ledger record 5 them corresponding successively arranged there being similar account identifying data 1.5

coupon designations with the corresponding on the depositors coupons and bottom leaf.

coupon designations oall three leaves sul i THOMAS N. WIN SLOW.' lperposed in registry' with each other, there Witnesses: f

being lines ofnvealuiess between the coupon R. G. VAUGHN,

10 designations Vof the .two uppermost leavesl F, H. MILHOLM. 

